The tee-hee of Michaśka (Michał Witkowski). Dangerous liaisons of black humor and camp in "Lubiewo" by Michał Witkowski

The article traces the similarities and differences between the categories of black humour and camp. Despite differing creative strategies, it turns out that they both have a subversive potential that undermines the social status quo. Lubiewo by Michał Witkowski can be seen as a model example of combining black humour and camp. These two categories, both employing distance, deconstruct each other through specifi c literary strategies. In Lubiewo, humour noir helps to fi nd out how the effect described by Susan Sontag in her Notes on ‘Camp’ is created. The black humour of Witkowski’s prose shows the tragic dimension behind the camp aesthetics.